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Padel club revenue and payback calculator
Enter your courts, opening hours, prices and costs to see what a padel club could earn in a year, its operating profit, and how many years it takes to pay back the build cost. It also shows the occupancy you need to break even. Everything runs in your browser and updates as you type.
Estimates for planning only, based on your inputs. Not financial advice.
Build cost and courts come from the Court Cost Estimator. The build cost is the midpoint of its range and covers the courts only (no land, fit-out, technology or VAT), so adjust it to your full project budget.
Your results
Estimates for planning only, based on your inputs. Not financial advice.
Court hours per year
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- Booked
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- Average occupancy
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Revenue breakdown
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Cost breakdown
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If occupancy is different
Every occupancy rate moved by the same number of points, everything else unchanged.
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Next steps
Turn the assumptions into real numbers with suppliers from the directory.
- Build a court Builders to price the courts and structure.
- Booking and club software Booking and club software, and its fees.
- Lighting and energy Lighting and energy, a running cost line.
- Business services Financing, feasibility and business advice.
Method
How the calculation works
- Bookable hours per court per day = whole booking slots that fit in the opening hours x slot length. 14 hours with 90 minute slots is 9 slots, so 13.5 hours.
- Available court hours per year = courts x bookable hours per day x open days per year.
- Booked hours = available hours x occupancy. With peak and off-peak, each part of the day uses its own occupancy and price, and the off-peak part is the opening hours left after the peak hours.
- Court revenue = booked hours x price per court per hour. Total revenue = court revenue + the other income lines.
- Operating costs = the yearly cost lines + booking and payment fees, which are a percentage of court revenue.
- Operating profit = total revenue - operating costs. This is before tax, depreciation, interest and loan repayments.
- Payback period = build cost / operating profit, in years. Not reached when operating profit is zero or negative.
- Break-even occupancy = the average occupancy at which operating profit is zero, with prices, costs and other income unchanged.
FAQ
Common questions
How is the payback period calculated?
Payback is the total build cost divided by the annual operating profit. For example, a build cost of 300,000 and an operating profit of 60,000 a year give a payback of 5 years. It is a simple payback: it ignores financing costs, tax, ramp-up in the first months and changes in profit over time. If operating profit is zero or negative, payback is shown as not reached.
What occupancy should I assume?
Use local evidence rather than a general figure. Occupancy depends on the local market, competition, pricing, opening hours and whether courts are indoor or outdoor. Good sources are booking data from comparable clubs nearby, your booking software provider, operators in your area and a feasibility study. Then use the sensitivity table to see what happens if occupancy comes in lower or higher than planned.
Why does the slot length change the available hours?
Courts are sold in whole slots. If you open 14 hours a day with 90 minute slots, only 9 slots fit, so 13.5 hours per court can be sold and the last half hour cannot. The calculator counts only hours that fit whole slots.
What does operating profit include?
Operating profit is revenue minus the operating costs you enter, similar to EBITDA. It is before tax, depreciation, loan interest and loan repayments, so it is not the cash left over for the owners. A full business plan should add those lines.
Where do the default numbers come from?
They are placeholder examples so the calculator shows a result on first load. They are not market data, benchmarks or averages. Replace every figure with your own prices, quotes and costs.
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